George Abercromby, 2nd Baron Abercromby (14 October 1770 – 15 February 1843) was a Scottish lawyer, politician and peer. The eldest son of Lt.-Gen. Sir

Ralph Abercromby Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Abercromby (7 October 173428 March 1801) was a British people, British soldier and politician. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-general in the British Army, was appointed Gov ...

and

Mary Abercromby, 1st Baroness Abercromby Mary Anne Abercromby, 1st Baroness Abercromby of Aboukir (''née'' Menzies; born ca. 1752 – 11 February 1821) was a Scottish peeress, socialite and the wife of General Ralph Abercromby. Biography Mary Anne was the daughter of John Menzies and ...

, he became, like his grandfather, a lawyer, and was

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in 1794. On his death in 1843 he was succeeded in the barony by his son.

Career

He was a Whig

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for

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, 1805–1806; and for

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, 1806–1807 and 1812–1815. On the death of his mother on 11 February 1821 he succeeded to the title of 2nd Baron Abercromby. He also inherited the estate of Airthrey from his uncle,

Robert Abercromby of Airthrey General Sir Robert Abercromby (21 October 17403 November 1827), the youngest brother of Sir Ralph Abercromby, was a general in the army, Governor of Bombay and Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army and then Commander-in-Chief, India, the East I ...

, in 1827. He was

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, 1837–1843 and, despite his age and illness, greeted

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on her progress through Scotland in 1842. Upon his death, he was buried at

Tullibody Tullibody ( gd, Tulach Bòide), is a town set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies north of the River Forth near to the foot of the Ochil Hills within the Forth Valley. The town is south-west of Alva, north-west of Alloa and east-n ...

Family

He married Montague Dundas (born 30 April 1772), third daughter of

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, PC, FRSE (28 April 1742 – 28 May 1811), styled as Lord Melville from 1802, was the trusted lieutenant of British Prime Minister William Pitt and the most powerful politician in Scotland in the late 18t ...

and Elizabeth Rennie, in Edinburgh on 25 January 1799 and had issue: * George Ralph Campbell Abercromby, 3rd Baron Abercromby (1800–1852). Married 3 April 1832 Louisa-Penuel, b. 22 July 1810. (Daughter of John Hay-Forbes, a Lord of Session in the Justiciary of Scotland) *Montague Abercromby (1807–1853), married Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie (1831) *Mary Ann Abercromby (1811–1898), married Col. N.R. Brown (1857)

References

thePeerage.com

External links

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